Measuring a Condo

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

Inside walls or adjust for outside walls?

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

Measure inside for a condo, outside for an SFR. That's the standard I believe, although a 1000 Sf condo would then have more interior space than a 1000 Sf SFR. :?

 

[Farm Gal]

Technically the condo owner owns the interior of the rooms to the final paint layer, but I am not going to measure to the 1/64th of an inch :lol:

I have never figured out how the used paint changes hands...

But I have seen some condo docs that specify this :!:

 

[larryhaskell]

I believe Lee is correct, but, then it is no longer gross living area but instead is net living area. If you measure the interior in our county, the square footage will never match what the Assessor's Office has. It makes no sense to me. Your interior wall is someone elses exterior wall & vice versa or so it seems to me.

 

[Farm Gal]

Larry:

I have been known to do my measurements then spend a pragraph explaining why I am not using that measure in the grid. I override the auto-fill in the grid so I am comparaing 'apples to apples'. square peg, round hole all day long :roll:

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

Your interior wall is someone elses exterior wall & vice versa or so it seems to me.

And one mans ceiling is anopther mans floor. :lol:

 

[Claudia Cullen]

I was taught to measure the inside of a condo and the exterior of the SF. I'm still waiting to measure a condo and find my measurements and those of the master deed floor plan to be even moderately close!

 

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

Thanks to all that have answered so far.

Claudia, you just hit on why I was asking. The builder states 1,408 SF.

I just measured it at 1,291.

I don't do any builder work anymore and this was a 1 year old refi. I'm amazed!!! How do the builders get away with this???

 

[Mountain Man]

Many are quoting "building area" and not GLA...... at least not the GLA WE use.

 

[Claudia Cullen]

Pam:
Is it possible that you and I are appraising condos built by the same firm? It sure sounds that way to me!